For what it's worth, Debian (with SystemD) has a LTS version: https://www.debian.org/lts/. And there is Oracle Linux as well, of course, which is definitely intended for enterprise use (yes, I know it's a rebuild of RHEL, with optional additions, but I include here it for completeness).

But this begs the question of "what *really* is an 'enterprise' distro?".

To my mind it's less about about having "enterprise" in the name or in the marketing and more about whether or not you feel you can trust it in your particular enterprise. As such, Debian and Devuan (even though the Devuan team is very small) definitely qualify for "enterprise" use  in my opinion. They are reliable, trustworthy distros that many people run their businesses on.

If they move more quickly in terms of kernel, libraries, etc. than the likes of RHEL and its rebuilds then that is not necessarily a bad thing. The software world as a whole is moving much more quickly than it used to and RHEL's long term stability is not necessarily the advantage that it might once have been. It really does depend on your specific use case and enterprise, technical or business needs. I state the obvious when I say, for example, that a HPC cluster's longer term stability needs are probably very different to a web server's long term stability needs. And yet both use cases need a good distro that one can rely on. It doesn't necessarily have to have "enterprise" in the name, though.

> Was Torvalds behind SystemD, etc.?  Just curious.

No, he was not! He has been critical of it in the past, as I recall.

SystemD is a Red Hat project and the original author was the controversial figure of Lennart Poettering.

SystemD's continued seeming mission creep causes a great many people to be very suspicious of it. (Which is just about the understatement of the Century so far. ;-) ).

[log in to unmask]">My understanding is that only SuSE, Red Hat, and Ubuntu produce open systems ("free to port" with attribution and removal of copyrighted logo intellectual property) "enterprise" distros -- and all of these in current production release use SystemD, etc., baggage.  Was Torvalds behind SystemD, etc.?  Just curious.

On 1/22/21 3:55 PM, Mark Rousell wrote:

On 22/01/2021 16:30, Larry Linder wrote:

My only wish is that the SL community start a New Linux based on SL 6.9
and erase all the needless junk added to SL 7.5.   Mainly dump the
systemctl crap.   If only expands the number of characters I need to
type to get it done and contributes nothing to operational efficiency -
more bloat ware.

This is in Debian too.

If you want a Debian without SystemD then check out Devuan.

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